Anvil Station: Halo RPG

Station history: Affiliations: United Earth Government (UEG), United Nations Space Command (UNSC), Swords of Sanghelios

Operations: Jointly operated by:

• United Nations Space Command (UNSC)
• Swords of Sanghelios

Captains: Stationmaster Toda 'Murajai

General information:

• Repair and supply station (formerly)
• Joint UNSC-Swords of Sanghelios training station

Capacity of personnel: 7000+

Troops:

• Spartan security units
• Sangheli security units

Defensive Air wing:

• At least four interceptor squadrons
• At least three Condors

Anvil Station, known as Anvil Keep to many Sangheili onboard, is a secret UNSC space station in orbit over an unknown planet. Spartan-IVs and Swords of Sanghelios' Sangheili warriors use the station to run simulated War Games exercises in which they hone their combat skills and test experimental technology.

Design details: Anvil Station is a space station in the form of a central spoke with two circular sections rotating about to create the station's artificial gravity. The station features several armor bays, hangar bays, and War Games simulation decks. Notably, for the purpose of fostering greater collaboration between Anvil Station's human and Sangheili personnel, the station was not assigned a volitional artificial intelligence. While Anvil Station's primary function is as a military installation, its unique role has seen it outfitted with recreation decks, gardens, and commissaries.

Crew and complement: Anvil Station is defended by at least four dedicated wings and squadrons of interceptors, with their Spartan pilots known to sport AVIATOR-class Mjolnir. The station has an additional internal security detail, with Spartans attached to these units noted to prefer AIR ASSAULT-class Mjolnir. Many Swords of Sanghelios personnel are attached to the station as part of the ANVIL project, with Sangheili pilots conducting cross-training exercises with their Spartan counterparts. Some of these exercises include the operation of Banshees. Additionally, the Riftborn maintain a presence on the station. The A'uzr-pattern sword frigate Sword of Conjunction is assigned to the station alongside a complement of at least three Condors. To assist in the development and testing of new armor technologies, several Sangheili artisan-armorers are assigned to the station as well.

The majority of the personnel aboard Anvil Station are younger individuals who have been carefully vetted and selected across a variety of disciplines, though veterans of the Human-Covenant War from both species also serve aboard the station. Following the discovery of the Ussans and their folding into the Swords of Sanghelios, some of these Sangheili were assigned to Anvil Station to bolster its personnel with individuals who had never before encountered humans or the other Covenant client species. With their lack of post-war political strife and xenophobia, it was hoped that their inclusion would provide a unique perspective and help dissuade conflict between the crew aboard the station.

Notable Personnel:

• Doctor Luther Mann
• Chief Warrant Officer Dariya Voronkov
• Spartan Commander Vinay Sahil

Fighter wings:

• Amity Wing
• Harmony Wing (Consisted of at least four pilots, each piloting Elsedda-pattern Banshee's)
• Sympathy Wing
• Union Wing (Consisted of at least four pilots)

Testing: The station has seen the oversight and testing of the following Mjolnir Armor Varients;

• COS - ANVIL cyber operations specialists use this chassis to mount experimental counter-intrusion modules.

• COMPASS - Swords of Sanghelios artisan-armorers aboard the station produced experimental multi-band sensorary receptors for this suit.

• DEADEYE - Tested on Anvil Station in cross-training exercises with Sangheili Rangers.

• DEMO - Tested on the station on behalf of an unidentified third party.

• HAMMERHEAD - Some Mjolnir prototypes being tested on Anvil Station are being evaluated for use in exotic atmospheres and irradiated environments.

• HIVEMIND - Anvil Station was deemed the perfect testing ground for suits designed for Flood outbreak containment.

• INFILTRATOR - This suit features experimental intrusion suites devloped by ANVIL's teams.

• LANCER - This suit features data gleaned from recovered Forerunner technology, integrated for ANVIL testing.

• NAVIGATOR - Certain MJOLNIR Mark VII technologies have found their way into Anvil Station testing armor.[

• NOMDAGRO - The assistance of Anvil Station's Sangheili lorekeepers in deciphering data recovered from ancient vessels have provided unprecedented opportunities for advancement.

• PIONEER - Following its debut usage on Installation 03, Acheron Security hoped to use ANVIL to test out improvements to the PIONEER suit.

• RHINE - Even the most carefully crafted tool of destruction requires field testing to refine and sharpen.

• SOLDIER - This suit was tested on ANVIL and deemed one of the platform's most versatile Mjolnir variants.

• SUTURE - Recently approved suit tested on Anvil Station for use by Spartan medics.

• TANKER - This suit was tested on Anvil Station, and its resiliency was noted to impress even the Sangheili cohort.

• WARRIOR - Despite being one of the platform's most mainline kits, WARRIOR was given testing in ANVIL's training courses.

Service history and origin: During the Human-Covenant War, Anvil Station was a repair and resupply outpost, but it fell into disuse. After the formal end of the war against the Covenant, the UNSC looked for a way to put the station to use again, with the task falling to Fleet Admiral Terrence Hood. Retrofitted for an additional 250 operational years, the revitalized Anvil Station was intended to serve as a base of operations for testing skunkworks prototypes and emerging Mjolnir technologies as development of the platform's second generation began in earnest for the SPARTAN-IV program. On July 2, 2553, knowing that there were emerging generations for whom the Covenant War would eventually be a distant memory and seeing the opportunity to lay a foundation of hope for the future, FADM Hood proposed to the Arbiter Thel 'Vadam—leader of the emerging Swords of Sanghelios—to use Anvil Station as the base for Project: CRUCIBLE, leading to the creation of a multispecies task force, and the development of new technologies between human and Sangheili. Thel 'Vadam would end up accepting Hood's proposal.

The Anvil Initiative: Anvil Station is the result of a classified partnership between the UNSC and Swords of Sanghelios, retrofitted to support the newly-established Anvil Initiative and Project: CRUCIBLE. Anvil Station was designed for the UNSC to test skunkworks technologies clandestine prototypes, some destined for full and successful production runs, others merely serving as a stop-gap in the development pipeline of Mjolnir components, weapon advancements, and more. Additionally, the station proved home to combat test simulations for both Spartan and Sangheili troops, hoping to test technologies and hone their combat skills.

With the emergence of the Ussans in 2553, an ideal opportunity was presented to the Arbiter to bolster the Sangheili ranks aboard Anvil Station with individuals who had never humanity or even other Covenant client species. Though the Ussans were few in number, the Arbiter believed their perspective to be invaluable, as they were unfettered by post-war political strife and xenophobia that had been nurtured by the Covenant's caste system.

Sangheili lorekeepers would help in deciphering information that would be later used in the NOMDAGRO-class Mjolnir. Anvil would also test armors manufactured by Insurrectionist and Banished third-parties as well, such as with PIONEER-class Mjolnir for Acheron Security. Prior to March 3, 2560, a set of ASSAILER-class armor would be transferred to Anvil Station after an Office of Naval Intelligence operation on Venezia.